Stephen Hicks discusses postmodernist Henry Giroux on education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. See also Professor Hicks’s full series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via these playlists.
Henry Giroux on Education: against Modernity and White Male Eurocentrism Read More »
Ayn Rand Center Europe invited me and and Craig Biddle to Belgrade to debate whether Objectivism is an open or closed philosophy. I argued for open and Mr. Biddle argued for closed. The following recording of the debate does not show the slides I used with quotations and other materials, so I am posting my
Open Objectivism or Closed? PowerPoint of my debate presentation Read More »
The character Gail Wynand pursues a use-and-be-used career strategy. Wynand uses strong-arm tactics when necessary in building up his newspaper’s market; he manipulates his employees with money to break their integrity; he fires those (like Dominique) who refuse to bend; and he lets the lowest-common-denominator of public taste dictate the content of the newspaper he
Wynand’s power strategy [80th anniversary of *The Fountainhead* series] Read More »
Reprising this classic from the Department of Collegial Zingers: here is W. K. Clifford on an intellectual acquaintance: “He is writing a book on metaphysics, and is really cut out for it; the clearness with which he thinks he understands things and his total inability to express what little he knows will make his fortune
W. K. Clifford on philosophical writing style Read More »
Ayn Rand was a philosopher and an artist, and she carefully distinguished the status of works that are discoveries from those that are creations: “A scientific or philosophical discovery, which identifies a law of nature, a principle or a fact of reality not previously known, cannot be the exclusive property of the discoverer because (a)
Open Objectivism or Closed? Philosophy as *discovered* facts, not *created* fiction Read More »
Reprising this post from reading Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. A character comments: “Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It’s just a matter of drawing it out, isn’t it? But school doesn’t know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It’s no wonder most people
Haruki Murakami on standard education and Russian novelists Read More »
Now back in Illinois, in studio I recorded a 15 one-minute answers to submitted questions: 1. Was Christianity at fault for the fall of the classical world? 2. Could you say that this country was founded on the work of slaves and it gave us an advantage over other nations?3. How does free will manifest
One-minute answers to fifteen questions Read More »